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Cahoot used to almost do this - single use credit card numbers you could generate from an app. Scrapped, presumably because it meant merchants couldn't spot fraud and/or track purchasers across multiple properties....
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Martin commented on
Media Piracy and Unpronounceable Names
All of those were predicted consequences of our actions, all came to pass, but you two claim that the UK was sweetly innocent and it was it was just a few bad apples, or it wasn't us, really,... Really? Link to a post where I've said that. As a suggestion, please do search through the site archives for the words "Baha Mousa" or "Bloody Sunday". I'll be the first to admit that some of the actions of the British in Iraq were shameful for the nation - for instance, the murder of Baha Mousa, and the disgusting treatment of...
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sleepingroutine commented on
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Thanks to EC, at lest that saves me time to explain very basic things in my consideration. However, it is far from being sufficient to elaborate my logic. to Martin "Katyn was carried out in the name of the USSR, just as Oradour-sur-Glane / Lidice was carried out in the name of Germany, My Lai in the name of the USA, or Amritsar in the name of the British Empire." Killing isn't childs play, it is either more complex or more simple than that. This is why I oppose this view, because it is an infantile bullshit that does not...
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sleepingroutine commented on
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couple of self fixes: hard truth represented by soviet historians misquoted by the a bit by us misquoted a bit by us...
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Greg Tingey commented on
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EC @ 193 Oh not that tired old wrong excuse about “Unfair” Versailles again. Seen the proposed conditions Imperial Germany was going to set if they had won - & what they did do at Brest-Litovsk? You must have missed the bits where I condemned Hitler, like the very post you are replying to. PLEASE – stop it? SEE ALSO Martin @ 194 P.S. Some years ago, I was on a bus in London with some German visitors, going past the end of Ridley Road – so I told them that that was were one of the internal street-fights took...
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Curt J. Sampson commented on
Media Piracy and Unpronounceable Names
While I'm not going to say "teh blockchainz is teh answer!!!," blockchain technology is reasonably likely to be part of the solution. There are some unfortunate misconceptions about blockchain technology in the first comment here that I'd like to correct. First, "blockchain" is not Bitcoin, or even cryptocurrency. It's (as many of you probably already know) a simple technique for creating an independently verifiable ledger. Here's how it works: You start with a "genesis block" of arbitrary size containing your data of choice and a method of taking a hash of the block it's is extremely hard to fake: that...
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